partyguy

> Is there a public curated list of "good ips" to whitelist ?

https://github.com/AnTheMaker/GoodBots

That's what I'm trying to do here, PRs welcome: https://github.com/AnTheMaker/GoodBots

Agree! I started SpaceHey a few years ago as a MySpace revival and it organically grew to 1M+ users. There's really a place for nostalgic social media (not only regarding the design, but also the feature set and vibe in general)

Exactly.

> When I started out, you could just copy HTML files up to your server and you had a website. It was magical! And PHP made it even better; you could just throw in a little snippet of server-side code and you had a dynamic page.

Well, you can still very much do this. Sure, it's not bleeding edge, but large chunks of the web (even newer sites) still do it this way and rely on PHP or sinilar server side languages.

Totally agree! I love mmm.page and I do think the internet needs more spaces for people to create their own pages and express their creativity. I actually recreated MySpace a while back[0] and and I'm seeing that a lot more people think this way!

[0] https://spacehey.com

I run both of those things for a while now, and I think it's easier than many expect. And once it's set up correctly, both Email and DNS Servers do not require much maintenance and scale pretty well.

I rebuilt MySpace... and it got quite popular

Similar: https://systemfontstack.com

Either way, it's the best way to go these days if you don't need any fancy external fonts on your website.

Currently using the "Glider"¹ client on Android. Pretty happy with it so far.

¹ https://www.f-droid.org/en/packages/nl.viter.glider/

Oh, I see - that makes perfect sense! Thank you for the clarification!

Glad you like SpaceHey :)

Keep up the great work!

Nice project! However, when trying to search for my site (https://spacehey.com), it shows multiple tags, with most of them being false (Cloudflare, UTM Tracking, WEBP Images). I used Cloudflare at one point in the past, but don't anymore. Additionally, there has never been UTM tracking or anything like that nor WEBP images... Where do you get such data from?

Apart from that, awesome project!

That looks awesome! I do miss the "old" web2.0 with it's forums, message boards and the characistic designs. I always appreciate any throwback/retro web projects! Great work!

seems like pretty much everyone is getting this error right now - logged into an account I haven't tweeted with today and also got that error

...time to move to spacehey I guess

https://spacehey.com - a MySpace-like retro social network without any tracking or algorithmic feeds. Including customizable profiles (with HTML & CSS), bulletins, and more.

I started it 2 years ago and it's pretty successful with about 600k registered users so far. I really enjoy building it and looking through all the creatively customized profile pages! It's so much fun!

It's currently funded with donations and merch, but it sadly doesn't cover the costs atm.

Hey! Great point - an API is currently in the works and will be available in all plans pretty soon!

Try using a different, dedicated DNS provider first - no need to switch registrars. For example you could try (shameless plug) https://nanelo.com If you want, I can migrate everything for you and hook you up with a free account for now.

There is one now! It's not perfect yet, but here it is: https://nanelo.instatus.com

Not yet, but it's a great idea! We'll add one asap!

thank you!! :)

Hi there! An, the creator of SpaceHey here - This is the 2-year update about my project recreating MySpace from around 2007. Here's the original launch item from 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25245740

You're right! Even MySpace is back [0]

[0] https://spacehey.com/

Wow! Pretty impressive that the whole thing is based on notion! MySpace nostalgia is still very very big. I actually rebuilt the original MySpace last year and called it "SpaceHey" (with blogs, forums, customizable profiles with css, bulletins, etc.) - it has over 550k users already and is still growsing rapidly. Pretty crazy!